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So I said I’d bake some cakes for Children In Need cake sale at work! And Thursday comes, mild panic set in as I was dreading to produce bear cakes like … Anyway I made myself a tea and set to work, it is fiddly […]

(Recipe added – taken from the book I mentioned in this post… and the recipe is at the bottom of the page for those impatient ones) I’m not sure if it was the cold or the mussels yesterday, but I wasn’t right! Last night my […]

I’m a firm believer in full fat stuff. I prefer full fat milk, full fat cheese, full fat Philadephia, and I love pork crackling. You get the picture, basically anything fatty. James is doing fine since he’s running and Ashleigh’s doing fine since he’s growing, […]

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Celery – Marmite of the veggie world. I used to hate it, absolutely detest the thought of chewing on the stringy, weird smelling and yuck tasting vegetable. My mum never used to cook it when I was little too, but then I think her cooking […]

This is THE signature Chinese New Year treat, at least for people from Hong Kong anyway. It’s called Nin Go, Nin means Year and Go means cake, so literally Year Cake. Nothing reminds me of home more than the smell of steaming nin go wafting […]

Chinese New Year is always a festival close to my heart. Mainly because I have so many childhood memories attached to it. Like… helping mummy to grate one Daikon after another till my fingers go in the grater (ouch), chopping millions of peanuts and they […]

What a grand name! They’re pak choi dumplings really. And have you heard of Jadeite Cabbage? It’s a piece of very precious national treasure, of a chinese cabbage carved out of jade! Anyway, like all dumplings, you can put in anything you like as fillings, and […]

Like many of the fellow foodies, I own way too many baking tins and my baking equipment cupboard is always full to the brim. A bundt tin, a swiss roll tin, a heart shaped tin, big round tins, small round tins, brownie tin… And really, […]

I love rice! I don’t think I can survive a week without rice. Yup I think a week is my limit. When we go travelling I’ve been known to have to hunt down a restaurants that do rice dishes to get my rice fix. So […]

After our very indulgent Chinese New Year, it feels right to be yet again thinking about eating lighter and being a healthier person. I have to admit one fruit that I was never that keen on was grapefruit. But I thought this recipe from Gizzi […]

Carry on with my speedy recipes collection here, I managed to make this in between baby’s cries in about 15 mins! That’s not bad for a healthy lunch with my dearest hubby 😉 So we got hold of some yellow fin tuna on offer. Just […]

Hello! Wow it’s been a long time since I posted anything… And a lot had changed. I moved house, I had a baby!! As any parents to a newborn baby will tell you, mealtime during the first two weeks of the new sweet baby’s arrival […]

It’s that time of year again! The BBC Good Food Show. The chance to see the a list of celebrity chefs (James Martin, Michel Roux Jr., Tom Kerridge, Michael Caines, etc!), Masterchef presenter John Torode, and our Bakeoff queen Mary Berry, Jo Wheatley and John […]

I was lucky enough to have a bag of wild garlic given to us last week, my immediate thought was “oh great! I’ll stick it in a stir fry!”. Which is my thought to most vegetables… it’d be great with pork and soy sauce, or […]

This weekend is the last weekend before Christmas. Apparently it was “Panic Saturday” according to the news, which I’m sure they just made it up because they feel left out after Black Friday. Anyway, if I were in any panic, it’d be about food. Have […]

I know it’s early. I know Halloween was only a few days ago… but I went to Boots yesterday and they’re already playing Christmas songs. (Don’t you feel a bit sorry for the staffs having to endure that for 2 months?) And amongst all the […]